You suck.
You all disgust me. I can feel your angry emotions from here.
January friggin’ sucks, so I decided to recondition my cutting board. I added a step, and skipped a step this go around. Here we go.
I started with washing the cutting board down with Dawn, and a new sponge.
And then I sprayed it down with a 20% bleach solution, and let it sit for a few minutes.
Wipe with wet paper towels, give it another light soapy clean and another wipe down with wet paper towels. Let it dry for a couple of hours.
Your basic mineral oil.
Now that we have a pristine board, that has had plenty of time to dry and off gas whatever fumes there may be left from the bleach, it’s time to oil the board. A nice layer, and an overnight soak in. See you tomorrow.
The board soaked up every bit of oil. I could stop at this point an be very happy. I usually do. But OMWC was using a board wax the last time I was there, so I decided to give it a shot.
After a wipe down, it was time to add the Board Cream. This is the added step. It is bees wax added to mineral oil. The smell is awesome. Leather and forest. There are a number of different brands.
PSA: So you see how much cream is on the board? Yeah, that’s about 50% too much. Don’t use anywhere near that amount. I mean like, half as much. You know, 50%.
Manana.
And here we are. It takes several days to do it right, but the results are worth it. I will do this twice a year. When I do this in the summer, I will add the step I skipped, which is running the palm sander over the board. This is about as pristine as a cutting board can get.
The next project is the auxiliary cutting board.
All right! Have at it Glibbies! 10 BILLION hits!
I started with washing the cutting board down with Dawn,
You’re no good for her
Was expecting this faded flower.
Faded flower
Did not disappoint my expectation
Now I’ll have 2 songs humming in my ear but good ones, boys.
Maclean and Maclean know – https://youtu.be/dFsm_PQa1eE
Judging from that first picture, Andy Rooney didn’t age well at the end of his life.
Googling, “angry grandma” yields interesting results.
That’s some fine work, and a pretty Board, thanks for sharing!
You do good work, Spud, I don’t care what the other folks say
Quick update. Still no shots or tests of any kind. The last two weeks most everyone at work has had the ‘vid, despite being double vaxxed. I have not gotten infected. Got sent home for a day and a half because of exposure to one of the vaxxed people. Apparently they changed the quarantine rule after 8 days had gone by, so I missed out on that vacation. They sent me some e-mails demanding that I pick up test kits about a month ago, so I tried twice to pick them up, but the lady dispensing them is too flaky. I just went back to ignoring the whole thing again. Hope everyone else is well.
Oh, and I injured myself at work and got put on light duty. Tore my oblique. ’bout three weeks into that scheme.
Right on bj, glad you have held out. I’m taking the news out of England as some of the best I have heard in a year. They are doing away with the masks, vax proof and the mandates. Hope that can seep over the pond to the blue states that are still trying to squeeze this thing for all it’s worth.
And yet places like Austria and France are getting *more* totalitarian.
I think I heard Austria tell Germany, hold my beer. France… well. I think Macron hasn’t learned a thing from the Yellow Vests.
Good for you blackjack. I’m glad you are well, still employed, and still with us.
There are towns In the US that are COMPLETELY ignoring COVID. I ran away from Virginia and moved to Woodward, OK. Almost no one wears a mask here, it isn’t required anywhere. My children attend school mask free and in person again. My husband took my daughter to the doctor to get her tdap booster and not even the people at the doctor’s office were wearing masks. It’s 2019 up in this bitch and I couldn’t be happier. Voting with my feet was the best move I ever made. I highly recommend.
Hey LG, I was wondering what was up with you. Haven’t seen you around here for a while and I remember you mentioning wanting to move somewhere more sane. Glad you made the move and that it’s working out. We are still stuck in Vid panicville central and it’s fucking lame.
#metoo and I couldn’t leave before November if I wanted to so it’s not even on my radar
The work to get the house ready to sell was intense, and then we spent three months living in a trailer park for oilfield workers while we found a new house to buy and then got moved in… it was pretty crazy but it was worth it. Even though my kids had never lived anywhere else they tell me regularly how happy they are we moved here.
I feel for Virginia since all my remaining family is still there, and hope things turn around. There are glimmers of hope, but I couldn’t wait any longer. Hope the east coast sees sense soon!!
Fuck yes.
Nice job, LG.
Thanks! From the number of new students starting mid year at the high school, I gather I’m not the only family who ran away. The great migration is real.
Welcome to flyover country, LG. Hopefully some of your family will join you. Kids are adaptable and will be wanting to explore some of their new home with some of their new friends. Being the new kid on the block usually is great with all the others wanting to be the new kid’s friend.
Omg yes. It’s so different here. My daughter had her first day of school and at recess was hanging out drawing when some of the kids just came over and just said, “hey, you want to play with us?” They’ve adapted beautifully and comment about how much better school is for them out here.
I miss some of the availability of produce; Oklahomans like meat way more than they like vegetables and I can’t find fennel to save my life in this town but I can grow that shit. Small sacrifice for the greater good.
I gotta say how grateful I am glibs exists. You guys kept me from totally losing my mind until I could escape. I’ve kept reading the posts the entire time i was gone, and it made me feel anchored to the world.
Good to hear, Southern hospitality, the kids learned it from their parents.
Huzzah! Was also wondering how you were and good to hear it is working out. Might be different if we had kids, but as much as I bitch about things, there’s a vast majority of the day that is pre-2019 normal. Very glad to hear that your family is able to have that.
Thank you! I’m glad to hear you’re in a spot that can at least mostly act like things are normal. Without school in the mix it’s definitely easier. I couldn’t make my kids suffer the virtual school nonsense any longer though.
Yeah, I’m a New Yorker through and through after 25 years or so but even I know the equation would be completely different if I had kids.
I have coworkers in NY who haven’t given into COVID panic and are just trying to get past all of this craziness. Hope you’re doing okay up there too.
Weathering the insanity for now, thanks
Some other people welcomed you back, but to be honest, they are inconsequential. They aren’t The First Of All Firsters. They are second by nature. But let me be the First one who matters to say welcome back.
That’s good to hear. I drove from Eastern WA to Phoenix last month, through Utah one way and NV the other. There were some unfortunate employees wearing feedbags here and there, but muzzled consumers seemed few and far between.
The more rural you get the more normal things get is what I’ve seen. Even OKC is still doing virtual schooling and masks but Woodward is in NWOK and has limited internet (I had to go with starlink) so virtual school lasted all of four days during 2020 before they realized it was unworkable. And not everybody died, even though they went back to school. Even compliance by the Walmart employees is low.
It also means no one gives a shit if someone builds some weird assed shrine on their property as long as it’s on their property, and some of the homes in town are questionable to say the least, but that reassures me. It makes me feel like freedom is an actual thing here. People are doing their own thing and living their own lives and it’s awesome.
no one gives a shit if someone builds some weird assed shrine on their property
Hey that STEVE SMITH shrine isn’t weird. Don’t let nobody kink-shame you!
I was thinking more of the house with its collection of EVERY yard ornament ever built. They were missing a T-rex eating gnomes; I was tempted to gift them one. STEVE SMITH would fit right in here.
Congratulations on your move LG. It sounds like it was a great choice for your entire family.
Oh, I am so happy for you!!!!
Thank you! If it weren’t for you glibs I wouldn’t have made it long enough to get moved.
Dick Butkus is on twitter and it is Glorious
I have been bingeing lately on this dude’s cutting boards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrh_g79Rzh0
I also like his politics even though he is a dirty Canuck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0OEGCKlCmw
That’s not a cutting board, that’s an art form. If his politics are like his craftsmanship Canada needs another election.
There still is some sanity left and the commenters concur.
https://archive.md/iF4st/bd5852e4be15416ffe462685f67d1e0f5da7280c.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/zmEDz/4325efc1df1588a511ccb69f290c0bfdb0458feb.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/atgay/8fc2e68965219ac98d7703b06a8b4ebebc5eb9b8.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.md/W28Pa/ee6dee3e134eca4b7588dda12bd4cca10bdda313.jpg
NSFW.
Oddly, on topic.
There’s a cutting board in that photo?
Dude! you’re killing me!
/I’ll be in my bunk
Paradise
Meatloaf again?*
*actually I like meatloaf, both the singer and the meaty loaf
#metoo on both counts
Fun fact, his composer/producer also collaborated with Bonnie Tyler and Sisters of Mercy (!), among other lessers. Bombast FTW.
Are you talking about Steinman or Rundgren?
Steinman
I had no idea he worked with TSOM. What did he do with them?
Just saw it on Wikipedia. Apparently he produced “This Corrosion”.
? One of these things is not like the other ?
That’s some range.
I think they all (well, the ones I know) all have a certain over-the-top theater in common. That includes Sisters of Mercy.
Absolutely and that’s part of why I love them. It’s a shame they haven’t released an album since Vision Thing.
Baby we can talk all night.
I poured it on and I poured it out.
I’m crying icicles instead of tears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-ts2s
On a hot summer night…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wO8toxinoc
I bet you say that to all the boys…
You took the words right out of my mouth…
That album was hugely popular at my high school. Boys and girls, city types and shitkickers, rock, disco, or country music fans- it didn’t matter. It helped sales when our principal mailed a letter to our families asking our parents to prohibit it.
One more Meatloaf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRl55U0eDw
It’s what I best remember Meatloaf for. RIP.
I got a gas stove installed yesterday. The era of big wood is over. Now my concern is that I won’t ever get my ashes hauled.
You kids and your euphemisms!
That’s the one you picked for a “euphemism” joke?
big wood seem too obvious.
Have you seen the size of Fourscore’s calloused hands?
Or the size of his wood shed?
So now you are cookin’…with gas?
If only.
I’m sitting in front of this machine with my opposite side toasty.
Well, I know who takes care of that for me, but I don’t think that’ll do you any good.
I already fell asleep in front of the TV, so I’m going to bed. Night, all.
Keep on churnin’ til the butter come…
Not so fast.
Watch “Baby Shark (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli)” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/POdbe-_bYbs
No. That’s a bridge too far.
I’ve been engrossed in the entire Hap and Leonard series by Joe R. Lansdale since RJ reviewed Bubba Hotep. Loved the movie, had no idea was based on an authors published writing. Thanks and love the movie reviews!
I’ve read 4 or 5 of them. Good stuff.
Just started book six. Nice change of pace from urban fantasy.
Well, I haven’t made any marinades yet, but I put six chicken thighs in the fridge in a brine solution.
I seasoned it with fresh chopped green onions, a diced garlic clove, some lemongrass paste, some ginger paste, a dash of fish sauce and black pepper. Of course, that’s not counting the salt to make the brine itself.
That sounds good. Let us know how it turns out.
Will do. I’m going to let it brine at least overnight before cooking anything.
I still have to figure out a marinade I can make for the beef, and how I’m going to soak the pork.
You kids and your euphemisms!
For no reason in particular:
Some De La Soul
* bobs head *
Well shit. RIP Louie Anderson
Was on a flight with him a couple of years ago. Didn’t recognize who he was during the flight, and his carryon bag was like a grocery story open carryall (I think I handed it down to him), and wasn’t until we waiting in the jetbridge for tagged carryons that I figured out. Everyone else seemed to know and a number stopped to talk with him while deboarding or take a picture. He was gracious and pleasant to all, invited the flight crew to his show as his guests, and generally came across as a genuinely nice man.
Did he host Family Feud for awhile or am I misremembering? I don’t know him from anywhere else. I mean, I know who he is but I don’t remember seeing him on anything.
Yes, I think he did for a bit.
Duloot Bulldogs Men’s hockey 5-1 over Omaha Mavericks.
Watch out Norf Dakoda Fighting
SouixHawks! We comin’ fer ya!Who linked to Charles Berthoud the other day?
Dude is amazing.
One string bass solo. No big deal.
I did. Saw that one too.
He’s got a good sense of humor as well.
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of Firsts and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of second and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you, hope you post before me
But what’s puzzling you is how to post before me
So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll First your soul to waste, mm yeah
Tell me, baby, whose First?
Tell me, honey, can you guess whose First?
Tell me, baby, who is First?
Ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo
Ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo
Ah yeah
Who is First…
This would have been so much better if it actually had been the first comment.
Spud, it’s nice to see you handling your wood.
?
If you ever want advice on handling wood, ask an expert. Ask Straf.
Does Straf provide pictures? I like pictures.
I guess I didn’t have my phone plugged in all the way causing it to die, ending my glibzoom. Good to talk to some other aeroglibs though.
suh’ fam
whats goody yo
Its all of 8º F here…TALL CANS
-5 here.
At least there’s almost no wind.
A couple months ago we had our 1st cold, with similar temperatures. Leaving work one morning, my truck barely started due to the aged battery. That morning, off to the auto parts store to get a replacement (after I checked alternator output and charging system, of course). Im disappointed to find that at similar conditions my “new” battery, while better, seems very unenthusiastic in the cold. I guess that instead of the $120 autozone “Duralast” I shoulda shelled out full price for the red top.
I guess the days of going to Sears and dropping $60 for a DieHard that lasts a decade are well over. Ah, nostalgia.
I just wish my furnace was installed properly.
Instead of putting the heating vents and cold air return in the floor, they put them all in the ceiling. So I get a very distinct temperature differential between the top and bottom half of the rooms. I sit down and my face is cold. I stand up and it’s quite warm.
I don’t care if it was easier in the attic crawlspace than the basement crawlspace, it should have been done correctly.
Ceiling fans are cheap and easy to install.
With my ceiling height, a ceiling fan would spin at face level or lower.
A cheap box fan to help air mixing may be your savior.
I have two in this house for that reason.
In HVAC we call that stratification. In cars, we spend unspeakable budgets trying to keep it below 5F delta with the feet warmer during cooling. That’s really important in Europe where people select blend distribution (what GM called bi-level); in the US, standard usage is high blower in face/vent mode, especially for cooling.
The thing about vent location is that you’re going to get it either way, just a question of whether it’s summer or winter. AC discharge should be around 55F compare at, say, 75F at thermostat height, so a 20F delta. With heat you can get much more spread: people let the house cool off more, the discharge temp can be really high, so floor outlets are much better in the winter.
We’ve got ceiling vents (slab foundation), so we have ceiling fans at the lowest speed. They’re reversible for a reason: officially, you want updraft in the winter, but I leave it like that all year.
If I had central air, I’d regard it as a tradeoff, but this house only has a furnace. If you’ve only got one, it makes no sense to optimize the vent positioning for the other.
We only had -3F.
Don’t know the exact temp, but the nose hair freezes almost immediately.
My nasal passages are once again dry all winter and it feels like I’ve got that mucus stuck to the sides that ought to come out by vigorously blowing my nose but doesn’t.
13º. I win.
All my cutting boards are plastic. Could definitely use a larger one though….
Happy Fed Injunction day all.
I doubt it will last.
going to pick up a rescue dog (foster) until they can find a permanent home for him. Week one of sheep isolation done.
Board oiling looks very nice.
Hochul’s outrageous, anti-science scaremongering on kids and COVID
Now do adults.
Any new illegal orders, or is the post agitating against the existing ones?
It is agitating against muzzling children. I guess it’s an existing order?
I see in the sidebar there was a civilian-involved shooting last night.
48-hour-rule but they’re claiming it was an “ambush”. That the female who called 911 led the cops to a bedroom where the male shot them.
Yikes.
commenting on Mojeaux in the forums, coffee, a couple of barges bang on the lagoon, a hip aches even after a good night’s sleep, the cats as close to fireplace as they dare, 17F but I’m staying in, tinnitus bad enough not to ignore
more coffee
Good morning, Don, U, rhy, ‘bodru, LCDR (::salutes::), Ted’S, homey, & NA! I feel much better after a good night’s sleep and with my mug of chai latte. Broke out the Irish wool shawl (with pockets!!!) for my Saturday morning indolence. Hope all of you are comfortably warm, wherever you are.
Ive got radiant heat from Jugsy. You know what they say- shade in summer, heat in the winter.
Glad to hear you’re doing better.
As long as I keep indoors I should be okay.
How does a shawl have pockets anyhow ?
This shawl is rectangular rather than triangular, and has patch pockets sewn onto the ends that hang down in front.